Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-08

Joe Brown, the merchant king OF Fort
Worth, gave every editor who visited his
store box of candy and roll of chew
ing gum.
Fort Worth prides in her railroad Gen.
ter She had her map printed on the ed
itors' badges.
The cracker factory gave all the editors
nice box of sweet crackers.
Mrs. Huffman surprised and delighted
her guests st the musicale by reciting
Kate Shelly in the very best of theatrical
style. Mrs. Davis said the piece was Just
charming and the delivery was perfect.
The finest looking l2dy - saw 7rHile %
Fort Worth vas Mrs. Cole, wife VI J. n,
Cole, our conductor on the excursion to
the Nation. She showed up & line con-
trast with her husband, Mr.. Cole, who is
as ugly as we are.
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AGREEABLY SURPRISED.
San Angelo Standard: There is no
city in the whole south more eminently
appropriate for holding press cOuven-
tiUn in than Fort Worth. The history Of
Fort Worth has been the history of her
newspapers, aud all her citizens are q
unit in declaring that while natural ad-
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the advertisement of these advantages
through her newspapers has done the
lions share in the grand work OF making
K metropolis. Prior to this visit, hav-
ing heard no end of criticism a9out Fort
Worth aud her rival, msny of them TO the
effect that Fort Worth was built of paper
and wind, etc, etc, we were agr,esbly
surprised to find that such a substantial,
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materials. On the spot we mentally
hoped that San Angeles prescription for
building d commercial center included
these two important ingredients (paper
and wind in the right proportions.
We confess that we never knew that
the word hospitality meant so much as it
does until this visit to the Fort. Imag-
inc the effect produced on a country ed
itOr when he is warmly greeted as he
steps from the cars by such men as Joe
Brown, B. G. Evans and others, and re-
lieved Of his emaciated quincy sack
(Which is handled as carefully as if it
were 3 $50 vslise), is kindly taken by
the arm and gently led into the most
aristOCratiC hotel in the city, and told to
make use of everything IL sight and shout
for enything he wants AID can't see. TIE
following day Wnen the photographer
comes around and begs the C. e. to give
MIN sitting, and the bath houses very
appropriately offer him their bath tubs,
and three or four fellows coax him to go
buggy riding, and everybody he
meets smiles on him like g
brother-is it any wonder We
ask in all caudor, if this poor,
over worked rjerEer begins to feel
that an error OF some kind has been made,
and that big case Of mistaken identity
is on the boards. The good people Of Fort
Worth meant well, but dOd CAST our fool
soul il we don't think they went toe far.
The unnatural citation produced by such
treatment has made rs 50 naughty II
nearly breaks our back to bend once more
over the memorable lever. EsthetlC tastes
have been engendeFed that it will be hard
to eradicate, We insisted yesterday on
putting cologne in the paste pot, much TO
the disgust of the senior, who wants his
straight; ana the other night we woke up
and CROPPED around feeling for the electric
knob TO call for some ice water, but, con-
found the luck, fell over g table, knocked
off q 81 lamp and barked our lower ex-
tremities on q stack of stereotype plates.
Everything looks snide now Our circu-
lation, which before our journey used to
appear to US like a hay wagon in fog,
seems so insignificant since we cast our
optics on THE GAZETTE pile that we are
ashamed to gaze on it. Fort Worth meant
well, but Just as in building railroads and
making maps, she does not know when to
stop.
At the invitation of Captain B. B. Pad
dock, the delegates had the pleasure of
taking 9 run over the Fort Worth and Rio
Gronde road-the one that will reach San
Angelo first. The track is laid distance
of IniTty-unc miles from The Fort, and the
large track-Iaying force at work indicates
that the builders mean business. In q
conversation with Captain Paddock, he
said that the route the road would take
after reaching Granbury had not been
definitely decided on; and while not in
clined to commit himself, he intimated
that San Angelo had as good chsnce to
get the road as any other point. He said he
was familiar with all the country out
here, and that being so, the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande will be sure to rush into
the "Monsrch of the Plains" before many
months. All the merchants in Fort Worth
spoken to on the subject, unhesitatingly
gave it as their opinion that Angelo would
get this Iipe-the best in equipment that
runs from the city.
A visit to the immense refrigeratiDg es-
tablishment Of Z. Dahlman was also of
interest as having q bearing on this Sec
ton. The outfit contains eight refriger-
sting rooms, capable Of freezing to 275
carcssces each every thirty-six hours, or
400 every twenty-four hours. Every
feature of the enterprise is complete. 1t
has two fine srtesian wells for furnish
ing water to make ice; has railroad
track running on each side of it to facili-
tate loading and unloading and has all
the latest machinery for doing the work;
and vet it stands idle while beeves are
shipped through Fort Worth to Chicago,
where the Texas stockman makes pres
ent of them to the Armour syndicate. No
plausible explanation was given why this
was thus, and we are lost in amaZement
that q city with the enterprises that Fort
Worth possesses should allow such
great factor in building up the cattle in
terest. tof the west, and with it Fort
Worth, 10 60 to ruins with its mammoth
doors tapping in the wind.
Much might be written of how favor
ably San Angelo is spoken of whenever
her name is mentioned, but IS this is the
experience of all our citizens who So
journ in the east we shall steer clear of
the chestnut.